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Creator:
Craig Colony for Epileptics (Sonyea, N.Y.)
Abstract:
Information in this volume includes name of patient; year, month, day, and hour restraint was applied and removed; why patient was restrained; how patient was restrained; and name of medical officer. Reasons listed for application of restraint include quarreling, fighting, refusing to work, mentally .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
62
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Abstract:
This series contains correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, reports, and other records pertaining to the closure of the Rome Developmental Center..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
63
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2379
Dates:
1944-1995
Abstract:
This series includes reports, research materials, and newspaper clippings related to histories, articles, and other materials written over the years by staff of the Rome State School and Rome Developmental Center..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
64
Creator:
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract:
This volume documents date of visit, name of visitor, address or agency, and sometimes title of visitor to the Rome Developmental Center and its predecessor, the Rome State School. The volume seems to have been used only occasionally and only scattered dates are documented. The register is only partially .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
65
Creator:
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract:
This series documents receipts and disbursements of cash, billing and payments made for facilities maintenance, documentation of funds encumbered and appropriated, and accounting for cash belonging to patients. The records detail the management of patients' funds, expenditures for patient and facilities .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
66
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2384
Dates:
1912-1993, 1997-2003, 2006-12
Abstract:
This series chiefly contains records related to institutional activities as reported to the Board of Visitors. The records include reports from managers or directors of individual departments, offices, and programs (Board of Managers) to the director of the Rome State Custodial Asylum, Rome State School, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
67
Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
These files include photographs, slides, audio and videotapes, brochures, and scrapbooks that depict operations at Syracuse Developmental Center and its predecessor, the Syracuse State School. Included are images of Special Olympics; celebrations and achievements of patients and employees; educational .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
68
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
The series consists of daily registers that record the population and activities of patients at the Syracuse State School and its predecessors. Starting in 1883, the asylum purchased and remodeled farm buildings at which older students were placed to learn farming and to produce crops. By 1931 the Syracuse .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
69
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series consists of ledgers, cards, and "clothing books" that record purchase, cost, and/or distribution of clothing and shoes among students/patients. Ledgers show patient name, item and cost. Girls' clothing books are arranged by year, then alphabetically by type of clothing. Date and name of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
70
Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Title:
Series:
B1643
Dates:
1850-1897
Abstract:
An 1851 law provided for the state to undertake the care and teaching of "idiots" (the contemporary term for people with certain developmental disabilities). The New York State Asylum for Idiots, with a capacity for 100 residents, was completed on August 10, 1855. The series consists of 19th century .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
71
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Title:
Series:
B1647
Dates:
1851-1945
Abstract:
This series documents admissions; discharges and transfers of the New York State Asylum for Idiots; the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children; the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives and the Syracuse State School. Information is also present in some volumes for death, parole, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
72
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2685
Dates:
1984-1995, undated
Abstract:
This series consists of programs, posters, news articles, correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, and related records that document the centennial celebration of the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office and its predecessor institutions..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
73
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series consists primarily of materials pertaining to staffing and employee relations issues. Records include memoranda relating to training, labor-management meetings, and employee classification changes; personal service item estimates; budget statements of personnel requirements; approved staffing .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
74
Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
The series consists of clipping files and a small amount of publicity material tracing the history and development of the Syracuse Developmental Center. The files were likely kept by the institution's museum..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
75
Creator:
New York (State). Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Abstract:
This series consists of photographs; key plot plans; blueprints; articles on the school; and assorted records representing accumulated research on the history of the Syracuse State School compiled prior to the laying of the cornerstone of a "new" Syracuse State School in 1971. Included is information .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
76
Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
The series consists of a group of logbooks that record visits to/from various institutional sites by residents, employees, state officials, and private citizens over a span of many years. The exact place for which visitation is monitored is not always specified..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
77
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2388
Dates:
1910-1995
Abstract:
This series contains reports, correspondence, memorandums, policy documents, manuals, newsletters, and other publications that were collected or retained by several entities at the Rome State School (later Rome Developmental Center). The records were assembled for their historical interest, to provide .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
78
Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Title:
Series:
B1692
Dates:
circa 1950-1970, 1979, undated
Abstract:
These materials depict children and staff in various therapeutic, educational, and recreational settings, classrooms, buildings, and grounds of the Syracuse State School. Also include are a history of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, a portrait of Dr. Hervey Wilbur, and records .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
79
Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
Photographs take 1878-1925 consist of images of children in their school environment and in individual portraits taken for case files or descriptive admission applications. Later 20th century images show institutional activities like woodworking, farming, sports, and picnics. Some images are enlarged .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
The exhibit material, possibly from of the New York exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 includes illustrations of instructional techniques, student products, and educational programs. Also shown are student activities relating to music, physical education, and sewing from the Syracuse State .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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